The Importance of Unlearning God. When what we've been taught about God, humanity, and the world no longer resonates with our experience, what can we do? Some leave the church, lose their faith, and grow bitter. Others remain, but defect in place, mouthing religious platitudes they no longer believe, but think they must. What do we do when our experience of God contradicts the first things we learned about God?

11:00 AM - Second Lecture:

The Myth of the True Church. How can we resist the temptation to insist our path is the true path to God? What are the dangers of exclusive religion in a pluralistic world? And how can the church still value its gospel, while also appreciating the paths and truths others have found?

1:30 PM - Third Lecture:

Awakened Souls. What does it mean to be a fully alive human? How can our experiences with the Divine contribute to our growth, our happiness, and our well-being?

In his most recently published work of non-fiction, Living the Quaker Way: Timeless Wisdom For a Better Life Today, Gulley offers the opportunity to participate in a world where the values of the Quaker way bring equity, peace, healing, and hope. Living the Quaker Way invites readers to encounter the defining commitments of the Religious Society of Friends–simplicity, peace, integrity, community and equality, and shows how those ideals can be incorporated in personal and public life to bring renewal and eliminate the clutter that is keeping us from deeper spirituality.

Gulley is currently working on his 22nd book entitled Unlearning God, in which he describes the process of spiritual growth, especially the re-interpretation of the earliest principles we learned about God.

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About Our LogoAdinkra are symbols created by the Akan and Gyaman tribes in West Africa, to represent concepts and adages. This adinkra, showing two fish, each biting the tail of the other, is called "Bi Nka Bi", which means "Bite not one another", and represents the concepts of peace and harmony.